William cauliflower

William Karfiol , also Wilhelm Karfiol (* in the 19th century ; † in the 20th century ) was a German film producer , film director and screenwriter who has been completely forgotten today, but is very productive .

Live and act

Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, Karfiol worked for Eiko-Film, but switched to National-Film in 1914 and to Messter-Film in 1915 . In 1916, after an interlude in a Budapest studio, he founded his own production company, Karfiol-Film, with which he produced all of his productions until 1919. His productions show him as a specialist in comedies, pranks and comedies.

From the mid-20s, Karfiol received hardly any offers from directors. He then turned to other fields of activity. For example, he can be traced back to 1925/26 as the choreographer of the ice ballet Die Laune der Favoritin in the Berlin Sports Palace . Towards the end of the silent film era, a film director took him to Prague .

With the dawn of the age of talkies, Karfiol made little promising attempts as a producer of a few short and feature films. Classified as a so-called "full Jew" by the National Socialists in 1933, his career was over. After that his track is lost.

Filmography

Direction and production, unless otherwise stated

• 1913: never to be found (short film, only director)
• 1914: The bathing nymph
• 1914: Through powder steam and bullet rain (also script)
• 1914: German women (only direction)
• 1914: The War Sofa (also screenplay)
• 1915: Ship, Ship Hurray!
• 1915: Your Highness the Traveler
• 1915: capital and love
• 1915: So'n Rackerchen (director and screenplay)
• 1916: A rejtély (only direction)
• 1916: Házasodik az anyósom (only direction)
• 1916: The Bridge of Love (also script)
• 1916: a great girl (also screenplay)
• 1916: Benjamin the Shy (also screenplay)
• 1917: The Telephone Kitten (also screenplay)
• 1917: The marriage school (also script)
• 1917: A Wet Adventure (also screenplay)
• 1917: Pension Trudchen (also screenplay)
• 1918: So'n kleine Schwerenöter (also screenplay)
• 1918: His bathing doll (also script)
• 1918: Little silk puffs
• 1919: The seaside mermaid (also screenplay)
• 1919: A great son-in-law (only director)
• 1919: Krümelchen's travel adventure (only direction)
• 1919: Dead or Seemingly Dead (director only)
• 1920: Derailed (director only)
• 1920: The fall into the flames
• 1920: Lo, the coquette
• 1920: Watch out for Meyer
• 1920: The marriage monkey
• 1921: Little mouse
• 1921: The talent test
• 1921: A hilarious honeymoon
• 1921: The Marriage Paradise
• 1921: A wild bumblebee
• 1922: The Dance of Death (also co-script)
• 1922: The bride for 24 hours
• 1922: A white Othello
• 1922: The soaked Don Juan
• 1922: Paul flies
• 1922: Firnenrausch (only direction)
• 1923: The Fencer of Ravenna (also co-script)
• 1924: The Bacchante
• 1928: Two infernal days (Dva pekelne dny) (only direction and screenplay)
• 1931: You have to forgive a woman for everything (only production and script)
• 1932: Looking for a subtenant (co-director, production, screenplay, short film, not listed)
• 1933: The Chaste Lawyer (only production, short film, not listed)
• 1933: Müller travels to winter sports (only production, short film, not listed)

Web links

• William cauliflower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• William Karfiol at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerd Thumser: Alpenkönig and cinema fan: Ludwig Ganghofer . 1st edition. 2005, ISBN 3-931680-46-0 , pp. 135 .